WHO ARE
YOU?
Blogsplot and Google provide a lot of
interesting data about you, the reader of this blog. I started this blog in
December 2013 and really got underway in 2014.
The
threesimplequestions blog finishes 2014 with nearly 1,000 readers per month –
600 first-time readers and 400 returning readers.
Most
of you are between the ages of 25 and 34.
This
morning the cumulative tally shows 70% of you are from the U.S. and 30% are
from other countries.
Monthly
total Nov. 26 – Dec. 25, 2014 = 1,123
United
States
|
780
|
France
|
97
|
Ukraine
|
72
|
China
|
28
|
United
Kingdom
|
13
|
Canada
|
12
|
India
|
12
|
Russia
|
12
|
Indonesia
|
9
|
Sweden
|
9
|
WHY ARE YOU HERE?
The
ebb and flow of countries presence on the blog has been interesting watch over
this first year and gives rise to fun speculation on my part. For example, as
of this morning, 8% of total readership this month is from France, 6% from the
Ukraine and 2% from China.
This
is the first month France has been this present. It varies greatly because we’re
not talking lots of visitors, so just a few can change the impression one can
get from looking at the data.
Why
the ebb and flow from different countries at all? I have reached out to some
foreign groups whom I presumed might have some interest in some content.
For
a string of days, a few months ago, the number of Ukranian visitors were nearly
as plentiful as those from the U.S. I was surprised. Before that, China was
very active. I asked my son, a techie 30-something, why he thought Ukranians
would come to my blog? He said they were either cyber-bots or hackers. He suggested that Google translation software
from some countries may picks my blog to calibrate itself for weird words.
Nice. The weird word guy.
Perhaps that was the case. French hackers
have targeted my blog? Ummm. What would
French hackers want from my December posts? To read the Christmas Shepherds
story re-telling? If so, welcome!
WHAT DO YOU
WANT?
This
first year has been an exploration of topics, attempts to attract readers from
the wide-open World Wide web. Some have said that having nearly 11,000 readers
for “THAT STUFF YOU WRITE” is remarkable. I’m amazed and grateful. It’s like
making a record album – you create it and put it out there and see what
happens.
And, as I say, each month roughly 60% of
all readers are first-time visitors and 40% are frequent flyers (if more than
once is “frequent”). Visitors look through the posts and spend quite a bit of
time. Is it general curiosity? Or, are you looking for something specific? I
have a few packages in the back room of my brain I could bring out if I knew
you wanted plaid? Short sleeves? Garden tools? Travelogues? Descriptions of Texas haunts? Oh, ALL of
those? No-problemo.
Thanks, mi amigos (I put that in for the
Google translation software to see what it does with two languages at once.)
© Copyright
2014, Jean W. Yeager
All Rights
Reserved
No comments:
Post a Comment